The Journal of Jesus, vol. 1 (1949), pp. 215 ff. Mostly it synchronizes its meetings with those of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis. However, the aims of the two periodicals are formulated differently: the latter is concerned with technical and specialized research, while the Journal of Bible and Religion seeks to treat “in a scientific but non-technical manner” the results obtained. It is therefore a journal of high-level popularization, yet of interest and timeliness even in the field of scientific exegesis, with bibliographies and bulletins on biblical problems (Research abstracts, from 1947 onward); it also deals with topics in the history of religions and religious philosophy.
Editions of Latin classics commented for schools: the Satires of Juvenal and Persius, the Comedies of Terence, the Odes and the Ars Poetica of Horace, the Epigrams of Martial, the Metamorphoses of Ovid, the De officiis, Cato Maior and Laelius of Cicero; Latin versions of various works by Francis; orations, panegyrics. Numerous editions were produced of the Novus apparatus Graeco-Latinus cum interpretatione Gallica (Paris 1681). His Historia Societatis Iesu, Pars V (1561–1616) (Rome 1710) was in 1715 prohibited by the Parliament of Paris for certain judgments contrary to the absolutism adopted by the Bourbons, and in 1722 placed on the Index (decree of 29 July) for certain passages on the Chinese Rites contrary to the papal decree De ritibus sinensibus, “quibus deletis, liber permittitur.” Pars VI, covering the period up to 1645, remained unpublished and was later taken up by G. C. Cordara, who used it for the years 1617–32.
In pedagogy his De ratione discendi et docendi (Paris 1691; later, after careful examination, Florence 1703) is of particular importance as the official text for all Jesuit professors. A work by an expert who there lavishes the treasures of his study and his lively enthusiasm for the school.